Mediation Experience: I have mediated complex family cases in a private practice for over 15 years. On a volunteer basis from 1999-2006, I served as a Special Master, mediating family cases for the Superior Court Regional Family Trial Docket in Connecticut. Since 2006, I have served as a volunteer mediator with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office Civil Rights Mediation Program in Tucson, mediating primarily employment and sexual discrimination cases. I am an Advanced Practitioner Member of the Association for Conflict Resolution, a national mediation organization. I enhance and maintain my skills by attending continuing mediation education workshops and seminars each year as well as seminars in the content areas in which I mediate.

Professional Background: I have been a mediator since 1994 with the Center for Divorce Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution, Inc. and also was one of its founders. I served as president of the Connecticut Council for Divorce Mediation, a statewide organization, in 2002. I have been a Licensed Psychologist since 1980 and had a private practice of clinical psychology for 27 years and was Chief of the Section of Psychology at Norwalk Hospital in Norwalk, CT from 1993-1999. An article titled “To Mediate or Not to Mediate: Financial Outcomes in Mediated versus Adversarial Divorces” and based on research I did with three colleagues, was published in Mediation Quarterly, Winter, 1999. In order to provide private mediation clients with document preparation services associated with their mediation, I have been an Arizona Certified Legal Document Preparer in 2004.

Fees: I bill on a hourly basis for mediation and for the preparation of associated documents. I offer a free half-hour consultation to potential clients in which I answer all their questions about the mediation process.

Types of Mediation Practice: I view mediation as a cooperative problem-solving process. As a mediator, I help clients create solutions to their dispute that fit their unique situation. I am impartial but always active in eliciting both client’s points of view and proposals. Based on my years of experience in mediating a variety of disputes and my professional training, I can help clients develop creative options to resolve their disputes.